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Yes, we each doing what we can has to be a worthwhile way to go. In line with the old saw;First, do no harm.
The 'big shame' about all of this is the skewed Politicking. That is, the top priority "First do no harm" has been applied to ensuring continued profiteering, with the least possible 'spend'. [Carbon trading?]
Instead of acting to effect the changes necessary from the word 'go', and then adjusting commercial interests to create a new green-energy business. Politics has been driven along the path of 'first grow the expectation of increased consumer cost', with the airy-fairy promise that the increased income and profit will at some later stage be used to foster a greener-energy business.
This is why, in the Global Market scheme of things, our domestic green related industries have been allowed to falter, and in the case of at least one wind-farm blade manufacturer, be allowed to fail.
To my mind this is because it was 'thought' that the time was not yet ripe, for we (the domestic consumer) still had some little way to go in having our reliance on, and trust in, the wisdom of this Politicking fixed in our minds.
'Much' we are told is being done to reduce energy usage, by energy suppliers and Government;cheap insulation, free e-efficient light bulbs etc. and yet we each pay a levy (not a tax, as made clear by a minister on Newsnight the other evening).
Industry and Government are thus said to be doing much/as much as they can:Although all that is happening is that we are becoming immured to the idea that we must pay more and more.
Result?
Energy costs become an ever higher proportion of income:we borrow more:the National Debt increases:we as a Nation become more and more reliant on loans and inward investment.
And yet, in overview, we are to be helped-out in this way by being paid in our own coin.